Vladimir Kuznetsov

Colonel Vladimir Kuznetsov (born 7 April 1940) is a former Soviet KGB officer. By 1991, he had become the chief of KGB Department 7 in the Leningrad and was tasked with monitoring foreign tourists there. Kuztnetsov was involved in illegal activities with his son in law, including the running of a snuff movies and prostitution ring in a certain hotel. The colonel protected the prostitutes and let them work there as long as they provided him with information on foreign guests. However, he got in the way of a group led by Colonel Viktor Galushkin planning to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev in a hardline communist coup, thus he became their target. His activities were subject to an investigation by Captain Maksim Rukov, who in the process ended up uncovering Galushkin's conspiracy.